Russia

This month marks the 100th anniversary of St Petersburg’s Bloody Sunday. The Manchester Guardian was there, as Charlotte Alston describes.

About 200 people died and 800 were wounded during the march led by Father George Gapon on 22 January 1905.

Hugh Small challenges the accepted view of why the Light Brigade charged the Russian guns at Balaclava on October 25th, 1854.

George Watson considers how news of a political and moral bombshell was received, particularly by intellectuals on both the Left and the Right.

The world's longest railway was completed on 21 July 1904.

The events leading up to Britain and France's declarations of war on Russia on successive days on 27 and 28 March 1854.

The Battle of Port Arthur began on February 8th, 1904.

Michael Lynch takes a fresh look at the key reform of 19th-century Russia – the end of Serfdom.

In the final article in our series on Britain and Russia, Stuart Thompstone visits the long-lasting community of Britons in the Russian capital.

Anthony Cross describes the introduction of British games to Russia.